2d ago

Finally, my first Cantaloupe!

I tried planting edible landscaping this year, but it's been working pretty poorly. I think I need figure out a better way to communicate the expectations with pedestrians.

So far 2 Cantaloupes have been taken well before ripening, an unripe green pumpkin was taken, an unripe bell pepper was taken, and they aren't touching the ripe tomatos or strawberries. So I'm very confused.

Maybe I'm expecting them to have too high of a base knowledge of garden plants? I may just move the garden inside the fence and build a small pantry instead.

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it's far better to have a community basket that you place extras into.
your thought was nice, but people are savages who have zero clue how to take care of themselves.
I once watched someone peel a cantaloupe like an apple. think about that for a moment. whatever you're imagining is probably less stupid than how they were doing it.
- How exactly does one peel a cantaloupe like an apple??
  
  they took a tourne knife in one hand, and the cantaloupe in the other hand. then starting from the top they began to spiral cut (poorly) thin shavings of rind.
  they must have gone over it three or four times until it was mostly orange.
  things didn't get interesting until the melon got all slippery and they not only almost dropped it 10 times, but also cut or stabbed themselves about 50 times.
  total time to "peel", just about an hour.

That's a good looking melon you have there.
I would have taken a tomato. I so miss ripe, fresh tomatoes.
- Literally the only kind of raw tomato worth eating, store bought tomatoes are the worst.
  
  I have found my oppostie then. Raw tomatoes are the only type of tomatoes I just cannot eat. I find them revolting.
  Sluce em up and put some feta on top and into the pan. Great. Do literally anything that is not raw tomato and I will rat it.

The only time I've ever tried to grow these, they were so tiny. Yours looks excellent!
- Not sure what I'm doing right but my 2 plants have 12 melons between them. Though the others are probably 6" diameter.
  Maybe it's because it's a fresh garden plot and while i do have a turf yard its got a heavy clover mix. So the soil isn't trash.

Ayyy, congrats!!
Some signage about how to tell ripeness could also potentially help

The fruit to seed ratio is the best I’ve ever seen!
- ?????
  That is dead on average for closed cavity cantaloupe.
  Some of the galia types would have a cavity of 30% smaller.

8cm diameter? So it's rather small.
- 21cm, its 8.25 inches.
  
  If you are using odd units of measurements instead of international standards...
- Thats inches, so 20cm ish
- If you’re ever unsure of the scale, metric tapes are divided into 10 segments per unit. American tapes are divided into 16 segments per unit.
  
  16 inches in a foot?
  
  I was sure it was inch, but the boneheadness to assume that everyone thinks in inches while only the US does annoys me.

How did it taste? Was it better, worse, or comparable to store-bought?
- It had a better texture and flavor, but it probably wasn't as sweet as a store bought one, but I could get a sweeter variety and likely win there too.
  Honestly everything out of the garden is better than store bought. And I've mostly planted and forgot it, its not like its even hard work.

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